deodorant

• deodourant (rare)

From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diˈəʊdəɹənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diˈoʊdəɹənt/

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deodorant (plural deodorants)

1. Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
   1. An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.

• success is a great deodorant
• winning is a great deodorant

• odor
• odorous

deodorant (not comparable)

1. acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor

• antiperspirant

• deodorant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “deodorant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

deodorant m

1. deodorant (odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm)

deodorant c (singular definite deodoranten, plural indefinite deodoranter)

1. deodorant

• “deodorant” in Den Danske Ordbog

• deodorans (dated)

Borrowed from English deodorant or French déodorant.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.oː.doːˈrɑnt/
• Hyphenation: de‧odo‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

deodorant m or n (plural deodoranten)

1. deodorant

• deo
• deodorantbus

deodorant (first-person possessive deodorantku, second-person possessive deodorantmu, third-person possessive deodorantnya)

1. Alternative spelling of deodoran (“deodorant”)

From French déodorant.

deodorant n (plural deodoranți)

1. deodorant

Borrowed from English deodorant.

deodorant c

1. deodorant

   Synonym: (colloquial) deo